Bosc "Two Seated Women" Signed Painting Oil on Canvas

Oil painting on board of a standing female nude in profile. Impressionist style, artist-signed and dated 1965 in a later silver giltwood frame.

The painting shows a table with several objects, including what appears to be a bowl and some fruit or other rounded forms. The color palette consists of muted, earthy tones with sof...

Painting by Bela Kadar Bela Kadar was born in Hungary in 1877. Amongst his early interests was mural painting. Like many of the artists of his day he was drawn to Paris and Berlin, and by 1910 he had visited both cities twice. In 1923, Kadar showed his paintings in Berlin at the invitation of Herwarth Walden. Walden was an important figure in the German avant-garde, being the publisher of the journal Der Sturm which featured the works of Franz Marc, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Marc Chagall and Oskar Kokoschka. During the group exhibition at Walden's gallery with other artists of Der Sturm, Kadar met Katherine Dreier whose Société Anonyme was instrumental in bringing the work of the European avant-garde to New York. With her help two major exhibitions of his work were planned for the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the second of which in September 1928 Kadar travelled from Europe to attend. Bela Kadar incorporated themes of Hungarian folklore...

Anna Salvatore (1923-1978), Italy. Midcentury beauty featuring two young sisters stylistically painted with colors of the time.